Market To The Max in Seattle

Next month I’ll be speaking at the Seattle Direct Marketing Association’s event Market to The Max:

The marketing industry heats up more every day, with advanced technologies, privacy concerns, and an increasingly fickle audience. Never fear! With 16 sessions to choose from, you're sure to find the topics that concern you most in these turbulent times.

Lots of interesting folks are involved, including one of my favorite bloggers Robert Scoble. He blogs about blogging – also used to work for Microsoft and wrote a lot about it.

I’ll probably ruffle some feathers with my take on WOMM. We’ll see …
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I love getting emails like this one from yesterday:

Dear Chuck Nyren,

I am a Portuguese sociologist that recently founded an event planning company to the 50+ market. Well, I always liked marketing and communications subjects, so now I feel I need to have deeper knowledge. I'm researching on the best way to communicate with the 50+ market in Portugal. I am reading Dick Stroud's book, and it as been very useful to me, as well as his blog. Then I found your blog too and it really has been very interesting. Let me congratulate you for your work and site! Thank you so much for all the help you are indirectly giving me in this very beginning of my business venture! Wish you all the best and hope to keep in touch with you!

Cumprimentos,
Best regards,
J.V.

It’s always a pleasurable shock when you find out that people around the world are reading your blog, your book – even if you haven’t a clue what they’re saying.